director. + "Ida Lupino: Mother Directs." Sept. 17
at 4:30: "On Dangerous Ground" (1951, Nicholas
Ray). + Sept. 18 at 2: "Beware, My Lovely" (1952,
Harry Horner). + Sept. 18 at 5: "The Hitch-Hiker"
(1953, Lupino). + Sept. 18 at 8: "They Drive by
Night" (1940, Raoul Walsh). + Sept. 19 at 2:30:
"The Bigamist" (t). + Sept. 19 at 5:30: "Private Hell
36" (1954, Don Siegel). + Sept. 20 at 4:30: "The
Trouble with Angels" (1966, Lupino). + Sept. 20 at
8: "Women's Prison" (1955, Lewis Seiler).
92Y TRIBECA
200 Hudson St. (212-601-1001)-"EatThis Film!"
Sept. 15 at 7:30: "Sweetgrass" (2009, Ilisa Bar-
bash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor), preceded by a
discussion with the directors and the sheep farmer
Eugene Wyatt.
RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART
150 W. 17th St. (212-620-5000)-"Cabaret Cin-
ema." Sept. 17 at 9:30: "Battleship Potemkin" (t),
introduced by the writer Alex Galper.
READINGS AND TALKS
MCNALLY JACKSON BOOKS
The novelist Tom McCarthy ("Remainder") reads
from his latest work, "C." (52 Prince St. 212-274-
1160. Sept. 16 at 7.)
92ND STREET Y
The Broadway producer Jordan Roth talks with
Billie Joe Armstrong, of the pop-punk band Green
Day, and Michael Mayer, the director of the mu-
sical "American Idiot," which is based on the
group's album of the same name. (Lexington Ave.
at 92nd St. 212-415-5500. Sept. 19 at 7:30.)
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
The artist Christian Marclay talks about his work
with the musician Alan Licht and the critics Liz
Kotz and Christoph Cox. (Madison Ave. at 75th
St. 212-570-3600. Sept. 21 at 7.)
ABOVE AND BEYOND
EUGENE MIRMAN COMEDY FESTIVAL
The comedian Eugene Mirman hosts his third an-
nual comedy festival, featuring nine shows at three
Brooklyn venues. Events range from "An Evening
of Comedy from 1986" to "Mike Birbiglia Inter-
views a Bunch of Sort of Authors and Sarah Vow-
ell." Other performers include Reggie Watts, Mi-
chael Showalter, Daniel Kitson, and Yo La Tengo.
(Sept. 16-19. For more information, visit eugene-
mirman.com. )
STARGAZING
Demetrius Oliver's public art installation "Jupi-
ter," a twenty-five-foot-by-seventy-five-foot bill-
board adjacent to the High Line, went up at West
Eighteenth Street earlier this month. As part of
the project, the artist Blanche Bruce and students
from the New School for Jazz and Contempo-
rary Music will assemble on the High Line to
perform John Coltrane's free-jazz composition
"Jupiter" on Sept. 18 at 6, Sept. 21 at 8, and Oct.
2 at 6. The twenty-first also happens to be the
date of this year's Jupiter opposition, the point
at which the earth passes between Jupiter and
the sun, making the planet easier than usual to
observe; it will be the closest it's been since 1951.
To allow the public to get a better look, the New
York chapter of the Amateur Astronomers Asso-
ciation is setting up telescopes on the High Line
that evening. ("Jupiter" the installation is up
through Oct. 6. For more information, visit the-
highline.org. )
AUCTIONS AND ANTIQUES
Asia Week is in full swing, and the city's auc-
tion houses are bursting with elegant wooden
furniture, stone deities, bronze vessels, lacquers,
and jades. Christie's, following a recent trend to-
ward less traditional offerings, will hold its most
ambitious sale yet of South Asian modern and
contemporary art on Sept. 15, led by "La Terre,"
a large canvas by one of India's most eminent
modernists, Syed Haider Raza. The sale of Jap-
anese and Korean art later the same day focusses
42 THE NEW YORKER, 5EPTEMBER 20, 2010
on works from the Meiji period (1868-1912),
including an ornate lacquer cabinet decorated
with scenes evoking episodes from the eleventh-
century "Tale of Genji." The first of the house's
three auctions of Chinese art (Sept. 15-17) is ded-
icated to archaic bronzes from a private collec-
tion, dating from as far back as the Shang dy-
nasty (1600-1100 B.C.); it will be followed by
another selection of works from the apparently
inexhaustible Arthur M. Sackler collections, and
by a more general auction of Chinese ceramics
and works of art (Sept. 16-17). (20 Rockefeller
Plaza, at 49th St. 212-636-2000.) + Sotheby's di-
vides its sales neatly into three categories, begin-
ning with an offering of snuff bottles (Sept. 14).
The Chinese decorative-arts sale (Sept. 15) con-
centrates on ceramics, paintings, and jades, such
as an exquisite Quanlong white-jade vase made in
the eighteenth century and decorated with taotie
masks inspired by the designs of archaic bronzes.
Modern and contemporary works predominate
in the house's roundup of South Asian art (Sept.
16), which nevertheless includes a large selection
of Indian miniatures. Among the modern paint-
ings, a group of works by the Indian artist M. F.
Husain stands out, especially "Cinq Sens," painted
in the Italian home of his friend Roberto Ros-
sellini; for those looking for something a little
showier, there is an enormous gold-colored sculp-
ture of a woman's head, by the Indian Pop art-
ist Ravinder Reddy. (York Ave. at 72nd St. 212-
606-7000.) + Doyle adds some vari
ty, holding
one of its periodic auctions of Belle Epoque dec-
orative art (Sept. 15). Lots range from an Amer-
ican Renaissance Revival grandfather clock dec-
orated with caryatids and scrolling acanthus
leaves to Sèvres gilt plates and a gilt-bronze fig-
ure of Icarus, before the fall. (175 E. 87th St.
212-427-2730.) + Swann's auction of images of
New York (mainly prints and drawings) on Sept.
16-17 reveals the many moods of the city, from
the majestic streetscapes of Childe Hassam to a
lonely street corner by Edward Hopper ("Night
Shadows," an etching) and Martin Lewis's sub-
tly erotic "Chance Meeting," reminiscent of Je-
rome Robbins's "Fancy Free." (104 E. 25th St.
212-254-4710.)
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ABOVE AND BEYOND · FALL PREVIEW
SOUTHERN MAN
The Morgan Library & Museum and the New
York Public Library are jointly mounting a
major Mark Twain exhibition, a hundred years
after his death (no exaggeration), or, as the li-
braries prefer to promote it, a hundred and
seventy-five years after his birth. The two in-
stitutions have substantial collections of Twain's
manuscripts, rare books, and handwritten let-
ters; more than a hundred and twenty arti-
facts will be on view at the Morgan, from
Sept. 17 to Jan. 2. (Madison Ave. at 36th St.
212-685-0008.)
FOOD FIGHT
The French culinary free-for-all known as Le
Grand Fooding comes to town Sept. 24-25,
with a twist: this year, New York City chefs
square off against those of San Francisco. No
matter the outcome, it's easy to declare the win-
ners-the attendees, who will get to enjoy food
prepared by such stars as David Chang, Dan-
iel Patterson, Robert Newton, Melissa Perello,
Nate Appleman, Mourad LaWou, David Sclaro\\',
Charlie Hallowell, Jim Meehan, Erick Castro,
Dan Barber, James Syhabout, April Bloomfield,
and Laurent Kalkotour. If those names don't
mean anything to you, check with your foodie
friends; they'll be able to tell you all about them,
just as soon as they stop drooling. And, of
course, there'll be champagne- Veuve Clicquot,
as it turns out. (MOMA PS1, at 22-25 Jack-
son Ave., Long Island City. For more informa-
tion, visit legrandfooding.com.)
FUNNY MAN
In 1907, a five-year-old English boy named Les-
lie Townes Hope walked at his mother's side
through Ellis Island, on his way to becoming
an American citizen and one of the twentieth
century's greatest entertainers. The research li-
brary on the third floor of the Immigration
Museum at Ellis Island was recently renovated
and renamed the Bob Hope Memorial Library.
It opens on Oct. 13, and will feature exhibits
about Hope's career in show business and his
work with the u.s.o. (212-363-3206, ext. 158.)
NEXT FOR NEW YORK
The Municipal Art Society, an organization
that dates back to 1893, looks at the future
of the city with a weeklong series of events. It
starts Oct. 15-16, with a conference on pres-
ervation and climate change, addressing the
ways in which some old buildings actually use
less energy than many new ones do, among
other subjects. On Oct. 17, the society is or-
ganizing tours of green buildings and neigh-
borhoods. The events come to a close Oct. 21-
22, with the MAS Summit for New York City,
a two-day gathering that will feature discus-
sions, speeches, and presentations about im-
proving life in the city. (For more information,
visit massummit.org.)
TEXT MESSAGING
The sacred writings of three of the world's
major religions-Judaism, Christianity, and
Islam-are featured in the New York Public
Library's "Three Faiths" exhibit, which opens
on Oct. 22. Some two hundred works, such as
manuscript scrolls, printed books, and other
historical objects, will be on display, including
a Hebrew Bible written by Joseph of Xanten,
in 1294; the Harkness Gospels, from Landéven-
nec, Brittany, circa 900; and a Koran completed
by Husayn ibn Hasan, in Persia, in 1333. (Fifth
Ave. at 42nd St. Through Feb. 28.)
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